Nightclub singer Deloris Van Cartier (Kristin Robinson) had no plans to devote a chunk of her life to staying in a convent. But in Sister Act, Lakewood Theatre‘s last production of the 2017-2018 season, that is exactly what happens. It’s Christmas Eve 1977, somewhere in Philadelphia, and convents are the last thing on Deloris’s mind. Indeed, […]
Alan Menken, Cheri and Bill Steinkeller, Cyndy Ramsey-Rier, Douglas Carter Beane, Glenn Slater, Greg Prosser, Jeremy Southard, Kristin Robinson, Lakewood Theatre Company, Laura Hiszczynskyj, Michael Snider, Sister Act, Whoopi GoldbergLakewood Theatre opened its 65th season on July 7 with Gore Vidal’s satiric sci-fi comedy, Visit to a Small Planet. A biting satire, the play is light on science and surprisingly prescient on social commentary. Although it was written in the mid-1950s it has lost nothing with the passage of time. In a Washington, D.C. […]
1950 America, comedy, Dusty the cat, Erik James, Gore Vidal, Jeremy Southard, Julie Elizabeth Knell, Lakewood Theatre, Lakewood Theatre Company, Melissa Sondergard, Paul Harestad, satire, social satire, Tobias Anderson, Tom Hermanson, Visit to a Small Planet